International Poetry Competition 2015 Head Judge: Imtiaz Dharker Wenlock Poetry Festival’s adult poetry competition for 2015 is open for international submissions as of Monday 26th of January, 2015. This year,...

Festival Feedback…

“A lovely event to start the Poetry Festival, and a privilege to be part of it.”

Lorna Taylor, 'Poetry and Dementia', 2012

“Congratulations on another wonderful poetry festival/word feast. You have brought immense pleasure to so many poetry lovers and writers. … I intend to join the Friends and hope to make further input to the festival in future.”

Gladys Mary Coles, 2012

“Congratulations on last weekend. It was brilliant! We were so impressed, that we booked our room at the Raven Hotel for next year, before we left on Sunday. In fact we’ll be staying ’til Monday so we can fit in more events. Well done everyone.”

Judy and Roger Noons, 2012

“The 3 Laureates were magnificent on Sunday night. I’m particularly looking forward to Gillian Clarke’s new work being published … as well as the 60 Jubilee poems commissioned from 60 poets by Carol Ann! And at the party afterwards we thought the Little Machine were splendid … very risky putting poetry to funky rock music!!! “